EP92: Liz Koch on ReWilding Psoas, Making Birth and Trusting Your Animal Power

What She Shares: Why psoas is a central part of birth Shifting from concept to physical movement in your tissues Psoas as innate expression Being coherent with nature Beginning your journey home to yourself What You'll Hear: Consciously maintaining our agency throughout the birth continuum Separating cultural conditioning from our animal-ness Trusting the animal body's knowledge of birth Unlocking your physical organism How ancestral trauma appears in different bodies Learning to shape shift to prepare for birth Why a supple, hydrated, expressive psoas is important for knowing oneself Trusting your own power Understanding the power dynamics between insurance companies, OBs, and birthing women Why your birthing experience affects your rite of passage into motherhood Examining appeasement and fawning responses Why it can feel so exhausting to try to maintain coherence with our animal bodies The difficulty of actively defending ourselves during birth The difference between controlling ourselves and expressing ourselves Finding your biological intelligence in your core The nervous systems as expression Why investing in your birth experience is a radical and loving act Making birth choices that support the earth and the human species How your birth experience affects your infant's nervous system How a sedentary lifestyle impacts a developing fetus Separating consciousness from the nervous system Psoas as "muscle of the soul" Landing into your bones and embracing the fetal curl